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Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery in North Yorkshire — predominantly a RAF aircrew burial site — holds three Soviet soldiers buried in 1945: Kapalil, Ustinov, and Kolishev.
Chester (Blacon) Cemetery in Cheshire holds the graves of four Soviet servicemen — Korsilava, Kardava, Gorin, and Lobshanidze — buried in spring 1945 after dying in a Cheshire military hospital.
At least 18 named Soviet servicemen are buried in military and municipal cemeteries across England — from Hampshire to Yorkshire. Their graves are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
On 30 April 1942, a De Havilland Flamingo carrying four members of the Soviet Military Mission to Britain crashed near Great Ouseburn, Yorkshire. Among the dead was Hero of the Soviet Union Major Sergei Asimov, who had made the test flight for Molotov's historic Washington mission.
Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey — the largest CWGC cemetery in the UK — contains over 5,000 WWI and WWII burials including some Russian Imperial and Soviet-era military graves.
78 Allied convoys delivered 4 million tons of war supplies to Soviet ports between 1941 and 1945. 85 ships and over 3,000 lives were lost — including 153 in the PQ17 disaster alone.